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Monday, 26 November 2012

This is my tally chart and my column graph I created using GoogleDocs, SpreadSheet. I had to walk around my class asking each student what their favorite drink was out of: Coca Cola, Fanta, Just Juice, Tropical Thunder, L and P, Lift, Apple Juice, Ice Tea, and Ginger Beer. 7 students voted for Fanta, and 2 students voted for Coca Cola. Be sure to leave me some comments about how hard I have worked!

Friday, 23 November 2012

What is saving energy? Are we using energy in the right ways? Do you know how to save energy?Well if you don’t know then you have to watch this movie about ‘How To Save Energy and Why’. Have you ever thought about saving energy?
Saving energy is the key to lighting up our world. Saving energy means
decreasing the amount of energy we use today. Generating energy requires
precious natural resources, for instance coal, oil or gas. Day by day
we use more energy then we can think. If you try to count up to how many
times you save energy, you will get lost in the maze. Firstly: You SHOULDwatch
this movie because using less energy helps us to preserve these
resources and make them last longer for the future! Using less energy IS important
because one day we might run out of energy! However a heavy coat of
dust on a light bulb can block up to half of the light. Secondly You WILL watch this movie because saving energy can be the key to what makes life possible. What is climate change? Is it real? Climate change ISreal.
We’re seeing the effects all around us. Polar ice melting, sea levels
rising, and extreme weather events. Climate change is the result of
greenhouse gases. Principally carbon dioxide, building up in our
atmosphere to trap heat. Climate change means a change in the world’s
climate. This is what climate change is. My final point: You HAVE
to watch this movie because. On one hand(metaphorically) renewable
energy is energy that comes from natural resources such as sunlight,
wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. As a result, with 10%
coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and
3.4% of hydroelectricity. But on the other hand the use of windpower is
is increasing at an annual rate of 20%. Islands getting smaller and
smaller because of climate change, such as, sea levels rising and taking
over their land. Saving energy has changed my life and it will change
yours. Do you know think that it’s important to save energy? Why do you think this is important? Have I persuaded you to make you THINK that saving energy is a good thing? If you were learning about how to save energy. Would you watch this? WOULD YOU IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO?If
it was the only chance for you? The only opportunity left? if I can do
it, you can too! For more information you can go to these websites:http://www.alliantenergykids.com/EnergyandTheEnvironment/SavingEnergy/022393http://facilities.utsa.edu/energytips.hthttp://energyquest.ca.gov/saving_energy/index.htmlhttp://www.wilderspin.net/School%20stuff/Persuasive.htmlOr my blog: tpscapricet.blogspot.com

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Do you like having a microwave, or a fridge, or lights in your house? It is awesome that we have electricity at our fingertips. But do you know how to be safe around electricity? If you have little children, be careful that they don’t pull wires out of the wall or plugs. Never play near power lines. They are dangerous for little children. Never play on dangerous things. REMEMBER DANGER AND WARNING MEANS TO STAY AWAY! Thank-you for listening to this safety message.

Complete the answers in part 2. and 3. of the worksheet in a doc(organise into reading), stick the worksheet into your inquiry book.

Create a wordle display of your new climate change words that you have learnt more about today and post this wordle display to your blog.

Task Two:Solar Energy: The Power of the Sun-Read the information FIRST-Then complete the follow up questions/activities-Create a google presentation about Solar Energy using the information found from this task.Task Three:My Own Personal Robot...-Complete the T-Chart (My robot will... My robot will not...) while thinking about your own future invention.-Answer the questions at the bottom of the sheet (question 4 will require you to do some extra research about Isaac Azimov)-Design your own robotic pet (does not have to be a puppy) using the Isaac Azimov’s three laws of robotics.-Take a picture of your design and post this to your blog with a brief description (name of pet, what it can do, what it can’t do etc).Task Four:Grammarnastics-Complete the grammarnastics task sheet that includes thinking about homophones and other vocabulary.When you have finished all of the above tasks TO A HIGH STANDARD (No spelling mistakes, the right punctuation, checked with a partner, neat presentation), you may have free time.

This is my four tasks I had to complete during the day! I had so much fun doing these activities and ended up completing it all! Be sure to leave me some wonderful comments!

Monday, 5 November 2012

On 5 November 1605, two years after the death of Queen Elizabeth 1, soldiers discovered a man called Guy Fawkes in a cellar under the Houses of Parliament. With him were at least twenty barrels of Gunpowder. Guy fawkes was arrested and tortured. At last he gave way and told his torturers about the plot to blow up the Parliament together with the ing, James 1, his ministers and Members of Parliament. Guy Fawkes was a Roman Catholic who had been angered by the failure of King James, who was after all the son of the Catholic Mary Queen of Scot’s to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. He had joined with a group of four other Catholics led by Robert Catesby in the plot to kill the King. Catesby had made the mistake of inviting other Catholics to join the plot. One of these was called Francis Tresham. Tresham wrote a letter to his brother in-law Lord Monteagle warning him not to go to Parliament and Monteagle told the government.The plot was foiled at the eleventh hour. Some of the plotters escaped, some turned King’s Evidence and reported on the rest.The unlucky Fawkes was taken in chains to the Tower of London and beheaded at dawn. He was hanged, drawn and quartered. At a public venue, he was then chopped into quarters. The charge was treason, though some people in England prefer to remember Guy as “the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions.”

Friday, 2 November 2012

We are learning about Energy and how it is made by different energy sources. Here are some information about each different Energy sources, that connect power to our houses! Be sure to leave a positive comment about my work!

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Here is a presentation I finished using GooglePresentation. We have been learning all about Energy and how we get electricity from somewhere to our classroom. Please be sure to leave a positive comment about my work.